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by gnud 2604 days ago
I've had this problem on Facebook. I've reported some ads for various (relatively benign) scams for herbals and the like, that use a famous newspaper as 'their url', when they have nothing to do with it.

Facebook closed my report as 'not against ad policy'.

Anyway, this is actually easily fixed without losing tracking/campaign flexibility, by requiring ad orders to be signed by a certificate valid for the target domain, if the URL is different from the displayed one.

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> Facebook closed my report as 'not against ad policy'.

Heh, makes you wonder, what's the ad policy? Sounds like: 'They pay us money, so must be legit?'